Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Suffolk ss. At a Probate Court holden at Boston, in and for said County of Suffolk, on the fifth day of November, in the year of our Lord one-thousand-eight-hundred-and-eighty-eight, on the petition of Mary B. G. Eddy, of Boston, in said County, widow, praying for leave to adopt, as her child, Ebenezer J. Foster, of said Boston, a person of adult age, and for a change of said person's name: It appearing that public notice of said petition has been given according to the order of Court, and that said Ebenezer J. Foster and his father have both assented thereto, and the Court being satisfied of the identity and relations of the persons; and that it is fit and proper that such adoption should take place, it is decreed that from this day said child shall, to all legal purposes, be the child of said petitioner, and that his name be changed to that of Ebenezer J. Foster Eddy.
